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Documenting the journey of a wandering (and usually lost) writer, teacher and martial artist through China and the Far East.

Why, or why, did it take me so long to discover Blueprint CSS?
Because I wasn’t looking, clearly.
I am not a designer. Designers are people with style, and my sister, my girlfriend and my housemate have all made it very clear that I’m lacking in that department. More than that, CSS fits into the large category [...]
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Journalists need new tools to work online. In the last year, I’ve used more that I can count, most of them free, to find and tell better stories on the Web.
Back in October, I started building an online database of such tools as a personal project, just a way to keep track of everything I [...]
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Following up on my last post, I started listing in my head all the places and non-places my local newspaper, like every paper I’ve read or worked for, covers. Here’s a partial list for a few news organizations:
The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA):
Places:

Santa Rosa
Rohnert Park
Petaluma (bureau)
Sebastopol
Winsdor
Healdsburg
Graton
Guerneville
Ukiah (bureau)
Lake County
Mendocino County
Occasional ventures into Napa, Marin and San [...]
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My next little side project is going to involve parsing feeds. I’m tired of wading through hideous newspaper.coms trying to find a certain story, or stories about a certain area, without having to avoid national news I’ve read elsewhere, or bits about towns I’ll never visit.
Andrew Meyer has been having the same problem:
When I visit [...]
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Apologies to anyone looking for bars, restaurants or news about Dalian. The site is down with a bad case of DOS.
We (by which I mostly mean Alex) are looking into the matter, which may or may not involve new hosting.
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In a comment on yesterday’s post about making news easy to find and easy to share, Alex reminds me that he and I have had this conversation before. Now that I think about it, we’ve had this conversation a lot, especially about finding relevant news based on location.
And about this time last year you and [...]
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I come back to this thought again and again in my head:
I don’t need more video, or more multimedia of any kind, or even databases or forums or yet another social network. All I want, as a reader, is news that is easy to find and easy to share. It’s what I want in the [...]
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From Joe Grimm, until recently of the Detroit Free Press, in his most recent (and always-excellent) Ask the Recruiter column:
We imperil our companies and our own careers when we do not listen closely to young people, whose experience with media is so different than our own and whose ideas may hold some of the solutions. [...]
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